Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling and Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020 Wine Seminar A worthy Champagne alternative

A worthy Champagne alternative

and today the 8th-generation brothers Antoine and Quentin are pushing the historic estate to new heights - organic since 2020

with equal seriousness

The nose is soft and alluring

and built around the table rather than the spotlight

Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling and Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020 Wine Seminar A worthy Champagne alternativeRiesling x Sylvaner is the Swiss name for Muller Thurgau, a grape with a deservedly grim reputation earned during its long career as Germany's bulk workhorse. Then you drink one from old vines farmed biodynamically at 800 plus meters on a granite ledge in the Valais, and the reputation starts to look unfair. Domaine de Beudon sits above Fully on a mountainside so steep that the only ways up are a private cable car or a three hour hike along a rope